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Thesis: Discourse Completion Tasks and Speech Corpora are both sources that are used in analyzing pragmatism. However, the corpora method is more accurate when coming up with a theory on how we perceive various texts. Body Paragraph 1 Topic Sentence: DCTs are efficient sources of data when testing a particular set of conditions in an environment. The DCT takes place in an already set environment with the conditions tested. Therefore, one is able to get the specific results they are looking for...

On the 3rd of October 2017 I held two interviews on campus with two respondents to whom I posed the following three questions required by the assignment. My two respondents included my roommate, James, a second year student of Arts and History at UD. My second respondent was a stranger I approached outside UD main library soon after midday. His name was Kyle, 32 years old and a fan of baseball. Below are their responses to each of the questions posed. Apart from knowing that I take the course,...

The folk music genre has a rich history. This history dates back to its origin from Great Britain when the British people immigrated to the United States during the period of the Agrarian revolution. In Britain, this genre of music was brought about by manual laborers who performed boring and tiring repetitive tasks. They made tunes that turned musical to finish off the boredom created by the daunting tasks they had to carry out daily. The British people performed the Traditional Folk genre. How...

Geographical Description The city is the most populated city in the Utah state. Additionally, it is the capital of the state. The City has the Great Salt Lake as its surrounding. The city is surrounded by some ranges on the Northwest and Southwest by the mountain ranges. The mountains that surround the City are the Watch and the Oquirrh mountains. The mountains contain some glacial canyons. The city is duly separated from the lake by the vast midlands and also Mudflats. Climate Type The lake...

Like any other group of people in the United States, people hold certain stereotypes against Asians. Some of these stereotypes are positive while most are negative. Even the positive stereotypes prove to be not so positive as they eventually lead to negative stereotypes. For many years Asians have outperformed other minorities in education, employment, and income. This has led to their being labelled the ‘model minority’ in the United States. The success of Asians in most fields has, however...

When archeologists from another universe that harbors intelligent life visit earth a hundred years after our extinction the most interesting remains they excavate will be cyborgs and self-aware motor vehicles. Since the emergence of modern science in Europe, human life changed faster in five hundred years than it did for over one hundred thousand years. This trend has been accelerated recently by dramatic advancement of technology in the last few decades. None of these technological advancements...

As literary concepts, dramatis personae emerge in the works of Vladimir Propp in reference to the tendency of fairy tales to incorporate a broad range of character types. One such persona in Collodi’s tale is the protagonist Pinocchio around which the story revolves. The author creates a series of events that characterize the escapades of his central character around which the story revolves. He further develops numerous characters including helpers and villains that help his storytelling as t...

Through his two poems, The Unknown Citizen and Musee des Beaux Arts Wystan Hugh Auden explores the human condition through time, expressing ordinary aspects of people’s interactions on a daily basis. The mundane nature of the human existence is clearly presented in Auden’s work using different literary devices. Most of his poetry is means to evoke the fear and terror of human existence in times of great uncertainties. Perhaps in so doing Auden hoped to remind his audience of the true nature ...

Yasha Frank’s adaptation of Collodi’s Pinocchio extensively alters both the theme and the main character of the original story. While the character of Pinocchio in Collodi’s novel, The Story of a Puppet, is highly active and hard headed, in that he does not listen or follow the rules, the Pinocchio portrayed on Frank’s play, Pinocchio is very passive, docile, and does not present so much hard headedness as the original one. Seeing that these was in late 1930s, early 1940s, a period marre...

While developing his plot, Collodi seeks to engage the reader in his story by inflaming certain passions that help reinforce the moral of the story. When you tell a story to a broad audience, there are likely to be indifferent interpretations and perceptions of the underlying message. As a result, the response to the story depends on whether the reader in question is actual, intended, ideal, or resisting. The primary focus here is the perception of the ideal reader to the development of the stor...